[Ben Scott]

shame ad stream wont accept MXF yet but does prores

once its a file deliverable for tapeless delivery it becomes far more interesting

all down to where you deliver to

but yes useful for avid

[Ben Scott]

its a shame though when the free market isnt really an effect and isnt as good as your effects

a motion project built for others is great but to be useful it needs to be carefully thought out

have you found a way of creating boxes at specific pixel heights for doing text at specific pixel heights for certain broadcasters

also would like to have effects which can choose different start durations for things like different leaders, but maybe compound clips are the way to go for these elements

[Ben Scott]

if you are doing this regularly I would suggest you get a copy of catdv, I imagine it will do what you are looking for, but cant be sure

certainly with fcp7 and catdv it would most likely work

get the demo
give it a go

[Ben Scott]

only thing I have found is clip range marking on connected clips doesnt work as expected e.g. press x whilst roll over connected clip

it wont allow any trim to marked range, which is a very useful function

it does work on things like lifting audio across sections of course though

[Ben Scott]

if its one second then shift right/left arrow, should do what you are after

try command left/right its nice subframe for audio!

if its setting a duration then its ctrl d
if its take playhead fwd or bwd by an amount it ctrl p

both are annoying shortcuts and should be remapped, i have a longer keyboard and I am using / and *

once you realise 1 to 0 on their own do nothing you realise you need to either set a duration or playhead

but also you now have 1 to 0 to remap to whatever you like, I have 1 set to open in timeline, its basically jump me into a compound clip or any clip you like

[Ben Scott]

what would be nice would be locking all edits (mark starts, blade…) to the secondary storyline like you can with tracks, this clicking in and out can be irritating as hell when using the keyboard

also why no mark play range and then trim to range on anything except primary storyline

but yes an expand compound clip would make it so much more useful

[Ben Scott]

I am sure if you want an OS that looks and feels like those you are used to you will need to move to debian type linux (but not the new ubuntu)
then run lightworks on it once its come out

its pretty unlikely all linux os’es will go the way of lion, windows and ubuntu unity

so theres my little tip for the day

get learning that terminal!

[Ben Scott]

thats imovie pro!

apparently it cant do multicam

but it can do graphics in a quarter of the time of the other big A’s

and looks pretty hot to me

[Ben Scott]

is the aperture remark related to it not being photoshop?

it isnt meant to be, its like lightroom

• the RAW dabyer quality is fantastic
• its retouch tools are sufficient for most purposes
• its metadata paste stamp tools are one of the best things I have seen in software for a while
• its printing has everything you would plus colorsync, something sorely missing in windows PCs
• its social media integration is unparalleled
• its windows configuration is fantastic
• the metadata in/out is very good

I suppose you are talking about the sluggishness which happens if your graphics card isnt bleeding edge brilliant, that I agree is a bit annoying
that the first few version had bugs is true, version 3 is much better and responsive

have you actually used version 3? have you seen the obscenely cheap pricetag

[Ben Scott]

other option I have been using is just cut your hd content into an sd project or copy paste to it, then do your crops if necessary

the scaler is nicer in FCPX by a big way

the upscaling is OK, not as nice as a kona card

the frame rate conversions are not bad either, think they are set to motion blur setting like available as mid setting in compressor